Answers for "python bytes to utf8"

convert string to utf8 python

FORMAT = 'utf8' 
text = 'Hello World!' # text to encode to FORMAT
encoded_text = text.encode(FORMAT) 
# the variable [text] is now encoded and is stored inside [encoded_text].

convert x unicode utf 8 bytes to u python

>>> 'xc5x81'.decode('utf-8')
u'u0141'